Long-term goal (not a resolution!)

[conuly]

I'm going to work on my French. I'm not completely hopeless - for things normally said within a family, I have a basic passive not-quite-fluency. But I want to improve on that for a few reasons:

1. I think that it's important for me to get back in touch with my cousins, and it's more polite to do that in their language.
2. I ultimately want to learn Walloon, and I need to get to work on the French if that's going to happen.
3. I think it's important for Jenn's kids, and just hearing it from their Nanen isn't going to help them much.

The third has a sub-goal - I'm going to find or make a playgroup of people who speak French or want to with their kids. Because something within me chafes at the idea of paying a large-ish sum of perfectly good money to watch toddlers play in French. I found a program that is $15 per session, drop-in, which is much better than paying a full sum in advance, no worries if you miss a session, but it still seems silly when you don't need to and there's no underlying ethical obligation. Cows, milk, you know the adage.

Any advice on the goal and sub-goal?

Comments

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Très bien! Je voudrais apprendre plus français aussi. Je peut comprendre plus que je peut parler, mais je voudrais parler plus bien.

I hope that made any kind of sense because it's been almost 6 years since my last French class.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I understood it just fine.

There are a couple of points that I suspect are wrong, but since it's been twice as long for me as for you since my last French class, I won't venture to guess the most correct version.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

cows cows cows. EEE !

[conuly]

*pats back*
*moves away slowly*

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

cows cows cows cows cows. oh, like you didn't know i'd do it...liar.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Cows, milk, you know the adage.

I'm afraid I don't; please explain.

2. I ultimately want to learn Walloon, and I need to get to work on the French if that's going to happen.

Very likely true.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".

Generally used as a deterrent to keep young girls from becoming sexually active. (Because then their boyfriend won't have any reason to marry her, if she's putting out for him...)

[conuly]

What Diana said, though in *this* case I meant "Why pay for a French playgroup when I can do the same thing myself cheaper?"

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Find French chat rooms and go in there and talk to people.

[conuly]

That would no doubt help my written understanding of the language. Weirdly, I used to be able to read French, though I couldn't speak it and was never taught to read it. However, I need to work on my spoken French, focusing on what I'd have to say to a young child. I'm not sure a chat room is really the solution I need.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Especially if the topic is more...adult-oriented. /smirk

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

Très bien! Je voudrais apprendre plus français aussi. Je peut comprendre plus que je peut parler, mais je voudrais parler plus bien.

I hope that made any kind of sense because it's been almost 6 years since my last French class.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I understood it just fine.

There are a couple of points that I suspect are wrong, but since it's been twice as long for me as for you since my last French class, I won't venture to guess the most correct version.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

cows cows cows. EEE !

[conuly]

*pats back*
*moves away slowly*

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

cows cows cows cows cows. oh, like you didn't know i'd do it...liar.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Cows, milk, you know the adage.

I'm afraid I don't; please explain.

2. I ultimately want to learn Walloon, and I need to get to work on the French if that's going to happen.

Very likely true.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".

Generally used as a deterrent to keep young girls from becoming sexually active. (Because then their boyfriend won't have any reason to marry her, if she's putting out for him...)

[conuly]

What Diana said, though in *this* case I meant "Why pay for a French playgroup when I can do the same thing myself cheaper?"

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Find French chat rooms and go in there and talk to people.

[conuly]

That would no doubt help my written understanding of the language. Weirdly, I used to be able to read French, though I couldn't speak it and was never taught to read it. However, I need to work on my spoken French, focusing on what I'd have to say to a young child. I'm not sure a chat room is really the solution I need.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Especially if the topic is more...adult-oriented. /smirk